James Veitch : This is what happens when you reply to spam email

James Veitch at TEDGlobal Geneva 2015
This is what happens when you reply to spam email  (transcript)
Summary
I thought that the speaker was really good at using computers like playing games and he might get money from an imposter.
I was then surprised that he said that he could do what he thought that we've always wanted to do.
Is it true? Does everyone think that?  I don't think that I want to do when I get spam email, because I'm scared but I'm a vulnerable adult. I wondered if he would be here.  The person can spend time with an imposter who is always spending time scamming vulnerable adults. At least, he would be busy at that time when I was deceived.

I got one message from Google one week ago. It was morning about at 8:30 am Japanese time.
I'm always said that I shouldn't open spam email. I knew about that, I shouldn't reply, and I shouldn't input just only my credit card number. I imagined that spam emails must be using English because many people said that and I also had gotten them used English sometimes.
However, that time, it was Japanese.

"Congratulation! You won an iPhone6! "
"Ask questions, input your address, and please receive your iPhone6."

My computer screen showed one beautiful iPhone6 and the screen was changing like Google platform. Some people put their pictures told me that the questions were easy and you should get iPhone! They got.
A small clock counted the remaining time.
I started answering. I thought that I was slow at entering something in the computer. Probably, I couldn't make it and I thought that I had to hurry.

There would be time left.

" Input your credit card number here,  Blah blah company pays instead of you do will be entered."

Why?

My computer screen unchangingly showed one beautiful iPhone6 and the small clock was also counting the remaining time.
There was a blank space that could be written on my credit card number. It was the same one I always used when I bought something from Amazon.com.

"You can cancel within 24 hours. If you have questions, you can call Blah blah company. Phone number ＋33 ○○ ○○○○ ○○."

I didn't have time to call and it was not Japan and it's needed money to call.
I started to input my credit card number there and then I had finished putting.

What happened after that?
I'll leave it to your imagination.

I don't think that I am never deceived, though, I often face such situations. I am too honest, too Japanese, and I'll be targeted easily.
Don't think that you're never deceived.  Avoid the worst case scenario.

Words in this story
deceive /verb/  swindle, defraud, cheat, trick
correspondence /noun/  support, dealing with